Hose.



Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

H. 1. EVANS.

HOSE.

APPucAnoN FILED Am :a

RICHARD J. EVANS, OF FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOSE.

Specification o! Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

Appuamon mea sp1-1113, 1909. serial No. 4ssen.

To all 'whom 'it may concern Be it' known that I, RICHARD J. EVANS, a citizen of the United States of America, residin at Franklin,in the county of Venango and tate of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hose, of which the following 1s a specication.

Heretofore, hose generally, and particularly air-brake hose, steam-hose, and firehose, has been composed of an interior and an exterior layer of rubber, with usually a fabric structure of sea-island cotton duck or the layers of rubber, the duck being cemented to the two layers of rubber and the' several plies or thicknesses or layers of duck being cev mented to each other by a rubber cement, the entire structure being subsequently vulcanized after being so ormed. Sometimes 1t has been customary to cut the cotton duck used for this purpose on the bias, and sometimes straight, and a hose comprising 1n its structure cotton duck cut both stralght and on the biashas been made. All these forms of hose, however, in ractical and hard use have had inherent de ects, due to the nature of the fabric used. The cotton or other vegetable duck is very susceptible to rot both by water and-steam and acids or other material passing through the hose, and is not very'strong at the lap joints when wound spirally in layers one u on another-around the inner rubber tube. 'F deteriorates in the vulcanizin operation, due principally to the action o the rubber and sulfur .used 'in such operation.

The object of my present invention is to provide a hose for air-brake, steam, lire, and other purposes, wherestrength, durability, and non-susceptibility to deterioration by chemicalaction or the eect of water, or moisture, or pressure are desired. To this end, I form my im roved hose of an inner layer or tube of in ia rubber constructed or formed in any desired or preferred manner around which is wrapped in a plurality o layers or plies a structure or covering of woven asbestos .duck or fabric, each thread or stra-nd of such fabric having, preferably, a fine wire of brass or copper or other suitable metal running said asbestos ducking or fabric having applied to its surface before winding a coating of india rubber in the ordinary manner known in the art as friction-rolled, or it may be so applied with a brush, the layers he cotton duck also,

through its center, the

or plies of asbestos ducking or fabric being wound around the inner tube of rubber a number of times corresponding to the thickness and strength desired in the finished hose. The asbestos ducking or fabric thus applied is then covered in the ordinary manner with an outer covering or layer of india rubber of any preferred thickness, and the entire structure thus formed is then vulcan; ized in the usual way. Before application to the inner tube of rubber, the asbestos fabric or ducking is preferably cut on the bias into strips and said strips stretched in any suitable apparatus, so that when the strips are wrapped around the inner tube of rubber they will not be susceptible to further stretching after the hose has been vulcanized and when the same is in use, or if so only to an inappreciable degree. I

Whlle iny invention will readily be understood from the foregoing description by those skilled in the art, I have thou ht it best to illustrate it, and therefore reIer to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a section of a hose constructed in accordance with my invention, on the line I--I of Fig. 4. Fig. 2 is a view showing the asbestos fabric. Fig. 3 is a view of the fabric showing the central metallic strengthening members or wires. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the hose showing the various layers forming the same.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in each of the several figures.

In the drawing, a indicates the inner la er or tube of india rubber; Z the several p 'es or layers of asbestos fabric wrapped around the said layer of rubber and wound upon each other; and c the outer protecting layer or envelop of india rubber surrounding the outermost layer of asbestos fabric.

My improved hose thus constructed is much stron er and much more durable and longer liver? than the ordinary hose heretofore in use, and practically is free from deterioration by rotting or chemical action, as the asbestos fabric or ducking applied in the manner I have described is much stronger than ordinary cotton or other fabric heretofore used for such purpose and adheres to the rubber better, making stronger lap joints when the fabric or ducking is wound in layers in the manner described. The fabric so applied will not stretch after incorporation with the structure of the hose, and substantially is indestructible by any of the influences to which such hose is subjected.

I claimz- As an article of manufacture, a. hose containing an inner and an outer layer of rubber, and interposed between said layers of rubber a, fabric of Woven asbestos in two 01` more layers cut on the bias and wound and super-posed on eachother spil-ally, the sadqg my hand.

RICHARD J. EVANS. Witnesses:

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,158,995, granted November 2, 1915, upon the application of Richard J. Evans, of Franklin, Pennsylvania, for an improvement in Hose, an error appears iu the printed specification requiring correction as follows; Page 1, line 12, after theword or insert the words other vegetable fabric nterpoeed between; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the oase in the Patent ce. y

Signed and sealed this 23rd day of November, A. D., 1915.

J. T. NEWTON,

Acting C'mnmiss'ioner of Patents.4

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